Collective Behaviors and Self-organizing Cooperation

We investigate evolutionary games on complex networks. First, we investigate the evolutionary prisoner's dilemma game on scale-free networks with community structures. Then we explore the heterogeneity's role in the evolution of cooperation on a variant of Newman-Watts small-world networks. We also study the influence of different initial conditions on the evolution of cooperation corresponding to different initial configurations for cooperators and defectors distributing among the vertices of networks. Moreover, we investigate Snowdrift game on an empirical social network. Furthermore, we study the entangled dynamics of the evolution of network structure and strategy. Finally, we present the unresolved open problems, future research directions, and possible application areas of evolutionary games on complex networks.